Need to know
Lizzie Cundy was turned away from Royal Ascot earlier this week for wearing a cream cut-out dress and is now demanding the dress code rules be reviewed yearly
Lizzie Cundy calls for Royal Ascot dress code revamp “every year”
- Lizzie Cundy has hit back at Royal Ascot bosses after being turned away for her outfit choice this week.
- The 58-year-old TV personality was given a “rap on the knuckles” by organisers for wearing a cream midi-dress with cut-outs to the prestigious event. She initially apologised but changed her tune on Good Morning Britain.
- Speaking to Kate Garraway and Ranvir Singh, Cundy defended her dress choice: “A galloping jockey could see that that dress wasn’t see-through.”
- The former WAG argued that fashion at the races should be about fun and personal expression: “I do believe – particularly the races – it is all about the fashion, it isn’t really about the racing.”
- Cundy has now demanded that Ascot’s strict dress code rules be updated annually: “Fashions change, we need to have the Ascot rules reviewed yearly.”
- She also hit out at what she sees as unfair treatment of women at the event: “It’s always the women being criticised, it’s always the women being ridiculed, and it’s never the men.”
- The Royal Enclosure has extremely strict requirements including dresses that fall just above the knee or longer and shoulder straps over an inch wide.
- READ THE FULL STORY: Lizzie Cundy fumes Ascot needs to ‘move with the times’ after ‘mortifying’ dress ban
By staronline@reachplc.com (Rishma Dosani, Bekka Barnard)
Source link
